Taking a bite out of bin Laden

Navy SEALS don’t mess around and neither do their canines. Lassie, Underdog, the dog from I Am Legend - all heroes. But those fearless muts don’t have anything on the four-legged friend who helped take down bin Laden in the secret operation last weekend. Their titanium teeth may make them more like Kujo than a cuddly companion, but like the rest of the unidentified Navy SEAL team, he (or she) definitely has our admiration and gratitude.

The New York Times reports that the hero hound was most likely a German shepherd or a Belgian Malinois. We’ve always known dogs are man’s best friend, but nowhere is that more true than in combat. In a war where two-thirds of casualties come from improvised explosive devices, dogs are able to find explosive devices far quicker than humans can.